I sent a massive ship on a grand tour of the solar system, it ran out of juice when the sun got blocked by jool, ( that's why i put RTGs on everything now) and it couldn't slow down enough to stop it from hitting tylo.
I have one, it scares me everytime. I wake up, i'm in a perfect home with the smell of bacon coming from the kitchen, i go into the kitchen, and see my wife cooking, and she says "Honey, go wake up the kids". And then i wake up screaming.
Almost always a probe to go along with a manned module. Always an RTG and a Small Solar panel Always one light or more Always an Escape pod or method of escape
The server the forum was hosted on was compromised, and they were only able to restore the backups from before octoberish 2012. That's one of the reasons you also see so many users with accounts created in April this year.
Intel integrated graphics, 2gb of memory ( Not dedicated though) 8gb ram 2.3 ghz processor ( rated at 3.1 ghz thanks to my modifications.) I can't play games on this so i use my imagination.
You'll be fairly limited in scratch, you could make it using unity, but i'd learn something like a more simple language first before jumping into C#...